Top singer seiyuu Nana Mizuki has expressed her “profound sadness” at news that one of her fans got himself arrested after illegally dumping the 208kg of potato chips he bought to get the chance to meet her on stage – not least because one of her own fans has just undone all the days she spent charitably picking up garbage herself.

The crisps contained lottery tickets which would grant an invitation onto the stage to 10 winners at Nana Mizuki’s upcoming August concert.

The 25-year-old Hyogo prefecture salaryman was so desperate to get one that he bought 89 boxes of the snack, each containing roughly 1,000 packets and costing ¥300,000 in total.

He unsurprisingly enough had no intention of eating them all, but found he had no way of getting rid of the 208kg of unwanted food and packaging (paying someone to dispose of them apparently being out of the question), and so dumped them all in 6 different wooded locations in the nearby towns.

Police took a dim view of this illegal littering and soon caught up with him, arresting him on charges of unlawful dumping, which he admitted, noting that “I bought a lot, but found I was having trouble getting rid of them so I threw them away.”

Ironically enough Nana Mizuki is a “special supporter” of the “MaruGomi” project, which encourages “people everywhere to have a fun time picking up trash at the same time, on the same day, and with the same feelings,” and spends a day each year picking it up – which probably would not go very far in clearing up the mess her fan made.

Hearing about the incident from a manager, she was “incredibly sad” – telling her fans “I wish from the bottom of my heart that nothing like this ever happens again.”

With the colossal wastefulness of idol marketing already attracting much attention in the wake of the general election, there are by now more than a few Japanese who are disgusted by the nation’s already seemingly pointless recycling efforts being undone completely by the music industry mafia – though with otaku spending being pure Abenomics there seems to be no danger of anyone actually doing anything about it.

Nonsense, they just brighten her skin. They do that with just about anyone. I've seen plenty of documentaries, and untouched photos to say that she doesn't look that different than on the promo picture.

In my honest opinion, they should just cut out the middle man. Let them pay either ridiculous amounts or auctions things like these. They'd earn the same but didn't have to print a lot of CD's which are then just thrown away. Same goes for this crisp action here...

He's guilty of naivety more than anything. As a fan he likely bought the boxes without giving much thought as to what he would do with them when they arrived, he likely was only concerned with getting the reward. If he lives in an apartment or something, he likely panicked when most of his living space was filled with boxes lol.

Imagine the opposite situation. Imagine him getting his ticket on his first try. He'd do the same.
Should have gone to a community center and give the snacks to kids, keeping his tickets for himself. He would be the hero of the neighbourhood for months.

Nana mizuki also has nothing to do with akb48.
Also akb48 have an anime technically so they do relate. Also obsessive behaviour of anime otaku tends to also cross over into idol otaku. Theyre not atonomous groups. Desire to meet mizuki could be for either reason as she is kind of a big deal seiyuu wise along with music wise.

and she litterally looks like the kind of girl you'd find living as your neighbor right next door... seriously, keep that 300K yen and just go for a walk outside your house and get the guts to just meet a girl like that if you really want to...

Mizuki Nana's main selling point isn't that she's cute: it's that she's Mizuki Nana. Though I wouldn't personally spend $3000 to meet a celebrity, I'd definitely consider her a better pick than the average pretty face.

This incident give me flashback to when i was 7 year olds. You know that snack that contain Rockman X cards? I remember bought a bunch of them just to get the card inside and throw the snack away because I bought too much.

Same go for Yu-Gi-Oh, MTG cards but that one doesn't contain snack. The same principal kinda applies here i feel.

I have to agree there is no excuse to his wasteful treatment of those snacks. Is he and idiot? He could have done something else about them. God dammit. If the tickets didn't allow him to open up the bags they could have been resold to foreigners. Stupidity at its highest.

Food banks are very much a recent American concept. They didn't exist until the 1960s.
The Japanese don't have any real concept of a food bank.

Second Harvest Japan is the only major food bank in Japan. It's also fairly recent since it didn't exist until 2000 or so. I think donations have to be delivered to Tokyo. This guy's in Hyogo, so he's about 300 miles away. Other charities don't take food donations.

For the most part, you can't donate opened products to a food bank. I'd think that single serve bags can't be donated outside of their original bulk packaging, but I don't know that for sure. However, I doubt any food bank wants junk food. They'd much rather have things like rice or canned goods.

Most people just don't have extra food to donate. It won't fit in your one room mansion, you don't get any discounts for purchasing in bulk, and you can just walk to a konbini or supa.

Bureaucracy makes it hard to get registered as deduction eligible, so very few Japanese organizations are deduction eligible. Simply being an NPO isn't enough in Japan. Most NPOs and civic orgs aren't deduction eligible.